How to install wamp server on window step by step - Professional Development Tutorial

Hello Friends,

Today i will discuss about a big issue that is faced by the developers when installing the webserver on personal computer. When you install Apache Server, MySQL and PHP manually, we have to configure all these software to work properly that is a complex task as well as time consuming. Webserver is necessary when we wanna develop a web application. After installing server we can run our web application on our computer without connecting to internet.

Wamp server is a software which installs Apache, MySQL, PHP with PhpMyAdmin that makes easy to manage the database. We do not need to configure any settings file after installing this software. It gives us great facility to manage the server. we can easily change the settings whenever we want. I am using this software for about 5 years. I also recommend developer to install server in this way.

Installing wamp server is not a complex task. Now i will explain step by step.

Step-1: Download Wamp Server from here.

Step-2: Download Visual Studio 2012 VC 11 vcredist_x64/86.exe from here. Wamp Server will not work on computer without installing this software. Most of the time people complain that "wamp server is not running on his/her computer". This is the main reason of the problem that they are facing.
First of all install this software, then proceed to installing wamp.

Step-3: Double click on the wampserver setup. After clicking install button you will see a screen after installing like the screen given below.

Step-4: It is asking you to configure SMTP server. It is nothing but a mail server that is used by the php to send email. Because here you are using localhost, leave it as it is. Put your email id in second box then click next-> then click Finish.

Step-5: Start Wamp Server. It will show green color when server is successfully running, If there is any problem in installing it will show red color.

Step-6: After starting server, we just need to test it in your browser. put http://localhost in browser address bar. You will see wamp server home page.

You can check out PHP, MySQL and Apache version installed on your your computer by clicking on the link phpinfo() under Tools as shown in above picture. You will also get details of each and every extension installed on your computer. Thats it.

>>> If you have have any problem, feel free to ask through comment. I will help you.